Victoria University College Capping Carnival, 1921. "Done to Death"
Caste of Characters
Caste of Characters.
Joe Loo (Emperor of Pak-a-poo) | C. Gamble. |
"Twenty-Fourth Old Man:—I am glad I am not a Chinaman; it must be very inconvenient to be a Chinaman."
—Maeterlinck.
Tuan Will Foo (his son) | E. Evans |
"I swung the word a trinket at my wrist."
—Thompson.
How Eli (chief torturer) | R. A. Tonkin |
"His creations approval or censure; I spoke as I saw."
—Browning.
Mrs. CHU Chows (Keeper of "Willow Pattern Laundry) | A. Mazengarb |
"She was a lady of great renown."
—Baritone song.
Yang KWEI-FEI (his beautiful daugh-ter). | Miss M. Pigou |
"Now I found that joy could be as high as Mount Chong Nan,
Sorrow as deep as Lake Shang."—"A Soul's Progress."
Conan Doyle (a tourist) | C. Moss |
"Do you see anyone coming sister Anne?"
—Tale of Bluebeard.
S. Holmes (An unsolvable mystery) | C. G. Kirk |
"Where do flies go in the winter time,
From January to June"Sir. Francis Bell.
Cho Pin (a lost soul) | F. Warner |
"Nor lost, nor stolen, but simply gone astray."
—Rev. Frank Gorman.
Sem Pul (secretary of the union) | W. A. Sheat |
"I stood for the rights of my countrymen, I stand—still."
—Orations of Dunbar Sloane.
Comrade Davy Su, Comrade Stevie Dore (members of the Union) M. Gibb, A. N. Other